“When it comes to mental health, our statistics in New Zealand are truly awful. Too many Kiwis are struggling and often don’t know where or who to turn to."

With a successful E round of investment and continuing organic growth globally, the debit network platform company aims to expand its local presence.

“Data automation is the fastest growing app category on the Xero app marketplace so we know there is a hunger for these types of tools."

“We are continuing to evolve and grow our ecosystem to integrate the best partners and tools."

Xero is hinting at new changes to its bank feeds system that could eliminate all paper application forms, manual checks and accuracy checking.

They’re ambitious, they’re self-starters, and they’re running young and dynamic enterprises that they’re eager to grow.

“Our growth is an indication of the strength of the small business economy across Australia and New Zealand,” says Xero’s managing director of Australia and Asia, Trent Innes.

Numerous ‘business confidence’ surveys this year haven’t coloured the outlook for many New Zealand SMBs, says Xero.

The tenants include business analysis firm Futrli, payment platform GoCardless and UK digital bank Revolut.

The fruits from Xero’s recent spate of acquisitions and partnerships have been proudly on display this week.

Unfortunately the Xero Security team is all too aware of fraud. We see it affecting our customers and community as an almost daily event.  

Xero has teamed up with a UK-based direct debit provider GoCardless and brought new options for payment collection to New Zealand businesses.

“Mental illness and poor wellbeing is something that affects many people, including small businesses; most people will encounter it in themselves or someone they love during their lifetime. We cannot afford to ignore it.”

Xero and Vend have both chosen an Auckland-based tech-based research agency Perceptive as their global insights partner.

One in four New Zealand and Australian small and medium businesses were victims of cybercrime in 2017.

Custom D and InView took out the top prizes - so what did they build?

The Awards were held last night on the eve of Xerocon Brisbane, and this year they were even bigger than ever.

Xero says the major new products and features are intended to enable owners and their advisors to build more efficient and profitable operations.

A 30,000 square-foot space nestled in a brand new building in Denver Colorado is the new home of Xero’s new US headquarters.

Open banking is closer to reaching the New Zealand public, with a pilot project currently underway and due to wrap up by the end of the year.

Businesses that have payment terms that allow for 60-90 days payment were more likely to be met within the payment period, or even earlier.

With Xerocon Brisbane only a few weeks away, partners are gearing up for this year’s Xero Awards.

B2B payment platform provider PayStand is one of the latest global companies to announce an integration with Xero.

Xero will pay US$70 million (NZ$ 103 million) to acquire Canadian-based cloud bookkeeping firm Hubdoc.